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Rita Mae Brown
Born (1944-11-28) November 28, 1944 (age 79)
Hanover, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • poet
  • screenwriter
  • activist
EducationUniversity of Florida
Broward College
New York University (BA)
School of Visual Arts
Union Institute and University (MA, PhD)
Literary movementLGBT rights, lesbian movement, feminism
Website
www.ritamaebrownbooks.com

Rita Mae Brown (born November 28, 1944) is an American feminist writer, best known for her coming-of-age autobiographical novel, Rubyfruit Jungle. Brown was active in a number of civil rights campaigns and criticized the marginalization of lesbians within feminist groups. Brown received the Pioneer Award for lifetime achievement at the Lambda Literary Awards in 2015.

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Rubyfruit Jungle

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Rubyfruit Jungle is the first novel by Rita Mae Brown. Published in 1973, it was remarkable in its day for its explicit portrayal of lesbianism. The novel...

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1982 American slasher film directed by Amy Holden Jones and written by Rita Mae Brown. It is the first installment in the Slumber Party Massacre series, and...

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York City on May 1, 1970. Members included Karla Jay, Martha Shelley, Rita Mae Brown, Lois Hart, Barbara Love, Ellen Shumsky, Artemis March, Cynthia Funk...

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Cozy mystery

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cozy-mystery detectives, notably in the work of Lilian Jackson Braun and Rita Mae Brown; herbalists appear frequently (of whom the best known is Ellis Peters'...

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Lee Israel

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on The New York Times Best Seller List. Novelist and book reviewer Rita Mae Brown told readers of The Washington Post in 1979 that Kilgallen had expressed...

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Fannie Flagg

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(August 13, 1981). "Rita Mae Brown, Martina Navratilova &". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 29, 2018. Brown, Rita Mae (1997). Rita Will: Memoir of a...

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Richard Kollmar

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ISBN 978-1-68261-443-3 Rita Mae Brown (November 18, 1979). "What Did Dorothy Know?". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 27, 2020. Rita Mae Brown (November 18...

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Diana Nyad

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The Right Side of History: 100 Years of LGBTQ Activism, written by Rita Mae Brown, was written about Nyad. Nyad has said that overcoming her childhood...

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Lesbian feminism

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involved in it. Some key thinkers and activists include Charlotte Bunch, Rita Mae Brown, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Marilyn Frye, Mary Daly, Sheila Jeffreys...

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The Woman Who Loved Elvis

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American drama television film, directed by Bill Bixby and written by Rita Mae Brown, based on the 1992 novel Graced Land by Laura Kalpakian. It stars Roseanne...

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Lesbian literature

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novel of this era was the picaresque 1973 novel Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown, which became a national best-seller. Jill Johnston argued for lesbian...

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The Furies Collective

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end male supremacy." According to Rita Mae Brown in Rita Will, the members of the collective were "Rita Mae Brown, Charlotte Bunch, Tasha Byrd [sic]...

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Mama Day

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coulda listened to them the way you been listening to us right now." Rita Mae Brown states that "The different voices are beautifully realized but confusing...

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Lesbian

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lesbian, admitted to being bisexual, had very public relationships with Rita Mae Brown and Judy Nelson, and acquired as much press about her sexuality as she...

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Venus Envy

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Venus Envy could be: Venus Envy (novel), by Rita Mae Brown Venus Envy (album), a 1998 album by the band Diesel Boy Venus Envy (sex shop), a Canadian sex...

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After Stonewall

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Gomez, Rita Mae Brown, Craig Lucas, Arnie Kantrowitz, Barbara Gittings, Barbara Smith, Larry Kramer and Barney Frank. Dorothy Allison Rita Mae Brown Anita...

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Susan Flannery

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Fosters. Flannery has an adopted daughter, Blaise. Gay rights activist Rita Mae Brown socialized with Flannery in Los Angeles in the mid-1970s. They met through...

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